Effects of postevent information on infants' memory for a central target

Article Abstract:

Three experiments point to the cognitive efficiency of postevent information effects. The experiments, conducted with 78 infants, investigated how 6-month-olds' recognition of a target was affected by introducing new information after a short delay. The infants' memory resisted impairment by conflicting postevent information, but source misattributions were common. Effects of postevent information on delayed recognition and on reactivation of memory were explored, as well as the role of timing of the information exposure.

Recognition (Psychology), Recognition (Memory)

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Timing effects of postevent information on infant memory

Article Abstract:

Timing of postevent information has different qualitative effects on six-month-old infants' memory. With short exposure delays, the postevent information interferes with recognition of the original event (memory impairment), and is treated as a part of the original event (memory facilitation). Both original and interpolated information get reactivated if the postevent exposure is in the early retention interval. Exposing postevent information after longer delays evokes response to a novel event (categorization).

Time, Influence, Interference (Perception)

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Infants' memory for context: timing effects of postevent information

Article Abstract:

Infants may falsely remember a new context as being an actually occurred event, when they encounter the components of a prior event in the new context, and forget the original context altogether. Infants exposed to a mobile task one day after training fail to remember the mobile in either the original or in the exposed context. They do recognize the mobile in a completely novel context. Infants exposed to the mobile task six days after training remember it in the exposed context only.

Context effects (Psychology)

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